Augusta Read Thomas, Reasons to be Pretty, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band among the long list of events on Walton Arts Center's calendar.
Ozarks At Large
Magnetic fire flies or magnetic fireflies? -- Augusta Read Thomas' world-premiere performance tomorrow promises to be stunningly imaginative.
On this spring fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, federal aid for the Razorback Regional Greenway is reinstated, W. Dale Warren gives a sneak peek into next week's University of Arkansas Concert Bands' performances, and teen-duo Strawberry Swing performs in KUAF's Firmin-Garner Performance Studio.Arts Live Theater's "The Secret Garden" opens tonight and another performance of Fort Smith Little Theater's "Sex Please, We're Sixty."
W. Dale Warren, director of Concert Bands and Associate Professor of Music in the University of Arkansas Department of Music, has a rundown of the University of Arkansas Concert Bands' next week's performances.
On this spring fundraising edition of Ozarks at Large, Grammy-nominated musician John Two Hawks performs in the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio and the much-debated issue of redistricting looks closer to a resolution. Wayne Bell discusses local blogs and their appeal, and jazz entertainer Barbara Mashburn discusses her scholarship foundation's annual fundraiser.Wayne Bell from www.fayettevilleflyer.com talks about local blogs and how they've affected the consumption of local information by Northwest Arkansans.
Grammy Nominated Indigenous musician John Two Hawks is hosting “Honoring Our Native Ways'” taking place Saturday April 16th at the Marriot Hotel in Tulsa. Appearing with him will be Yankton Sioux artist Joseph Chamberlain, designated the 2011 Pendleton Legendary Blanket artist. Both met with Jacqueline Froelich in our performance studio.Fayetteville chef William McCormick of Farrell's Lounge and restaurateur Jerrmy Gawthrop of Greenhouse Grille talk about participating in Walton Arts Center's Chopped in the Ozarks competition. The event will begin at 6 p.m. today in Starr Theater.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks…the 2013 Northwest Arkansas Education Report Card has numbers, plenty of numbers, relating to 17 public school districts in Washington and Benton Counties. We'll talk to Gary Ritter, the director of the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas about the report. And the three-person band The Room Outside plays inside the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. We'll also talk to Michael Tilley from The City Wire about the week’s news and Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers about the upcoming weekend’s entertainment opportunities.
We make a KUAF button and learn how Kassy Gross became K&A Button Emporium in May’s Locally Made Segment.
A Wrecking Ball this month celebrates new beginnings in downtown Springdale.
Becca says that there are all kinds of runs benefitting all kinds of causes, like one on Memorial Day for Arkansas Support Network.
“Take a Walk” Passion Pit, and at end of show: “Six Ways to Sunday” by Blackberry Smoke
The Bicycle Coalition of the Ozarks has received a $33,000 grant to help begin the process of implementing Safe Routes to School throughout northwest Arkansas. And, traditional marriage advocates gathered in Little Rock yesterday to voice their opposition to recent rulings in favor of same-sex marriage in Arkansas.
"We'll Be Ok" by Afrojack, Wrabel
In our weekly conversation with Michael Tilley from The City Wire we discuss a $14 million contribution to a planned medical college.
